Friday Ephemera (679)
A rather tense situation. || His is bigger than yours. || Taste the rainbow. || Not today, baby. || British policing, circa 2023. || Meanwhile, in Germany. || “We don’t use gendered language in this household.” || And how was your day at school? || When getting dressed has to be, like, super-duper complicated. || Today’s word is parenting. || Car park encounter. || Post-shoplifting scenario. || Chicago airport scenes. || Parking is hard. || Apparently, it runs in families. || He has euphoria-inducing stains. || Hello, ladies. || “Love never fails.” || It’s not milk, sir, and it’s not at all nutritious. Also. || Cannot say, must not think. || Side-eye of note. || When you’re not really that keen on tomatoes. || A scale model of time. || And finally, when you turn up at the wrong house but still fancy your chances.
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Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, and Led Zeppelin.
Uptown Funk.
Remember the 25th of May!
Lilac time
Easier to empty the oceans with a teaspoon.
Remember the old joke about Europe:
Yeah… we may need to revise that a bit.
Despite the whiny, poor-me pretence, the psychology of such people is not benign. At best, it’s ungrateful and insufferably narcissistic:
For instance.
Preening, yes, but of the newly-fashioned sort imbued with an outsized proportion of fantastic delusion.
Back before Natalie Merchant and 10,000 Maniacs were big, they used to play frequently at our campus bar at UF. They would have a screen behind them and project old black and white movies, and often Laurel & Hardy stuff, during their performances. I really enjoyed that for some reason. For several years whenever I gat home late and still needed to wind down I would put some mid-80’s music on and find and old B&W movie on the TV late shows. Surreal back when surreal could still be a good thing.
I see your 10.000 Maniacs and raise you The Police who were the underwhelming supporting act at my university Xmas party in 1977.
To slightly paraphrase Rufus from Bill and Ted “they did get better”.
Band name.
By the way, am I wrong? After all the examples of the new modern retail experiences seen here, those roving gangs of coordinated shoplifters just aren’t storming Target for Pride merch, now, are they?
Must be transphobes . . .
Guys used to call themselves lesbians as a joke.
I’m adding a hard boiled egg to my lunchtime salad.
Don’t forget the reasonably priced love.
Suboptimal scenario.
Should have just shoved him out the open door.
Plane door: surely an engineer could fix it so the door won’t open during flight? No?
I seem to recall one of those expert peoples, who claimed to be an engineer of some sort (but who verifies these things?) that due to door designs and there being significant air pressure differences, something like that could never happen. Ever. It’s #science and stuff. So based on some obscure expert’s opinion that I ran across probably 20 years ago, I say it’s fake. Because that’s the smart #science call.
Not fake. BBC explains:
That sounds difficult to impossible and also dangerous as it could prevent opening after a crash if the controlling sensors are broken.
A day late surely?
🥚
As I recall, and I didn’t look to deeply into it at the time… I think this was around the 9/11 attacks…that a significant difference in air pressure between the cabin pressure and the outside would, on the basis of the pressure itself, keep the door from opening. If this did indeed occur 250m from ground…which is what? 800 feet in normal people units? Like the height of a skyscraper? The pressure difference might not have been sufficient.
High enough for the miscreant to make an interesting splash pattern.
I think the pressure differential at 250 feet is negligible.
Meters, but probably not much difference at 820 feet.
Denver’s elevation is 1600m. How do people manage to get off planes there?
Likely they decrease the cabin pressure ’til it’s equal to that on the ground.
Likely they decrease the cabin pressure ’til it’s equal to that on the ground.
Increase the cabin pressure, unless you are landing somewhere in Tibet or the Andes. Depending on the aircraft and flight profile, commercial planes are pressurized to between 6000 and 8500 ft, but the pressure equalization happens during descent anyway.
Is why during descent you may have,for example, ear discomfort if because of a cold, allergies, etc. your eustachian tubes aren’t working as advertised and the air pressure outside becomes greater than the air trapped behind the ear drum. The opposite, of course, during ascent and why yawning, chewing gum, etc, gets the eustachian tubes to open and let the higher pressure air behind the ear drum out.
Of course all that is opposite if you are flying out of Tibet or the Andes…
Steven Spielberg’s trans ballerina
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Sentenced to death for saying the G word
Jurassic Plié
“This sharp knife making an ultra thin tomato sandwich.” No mayo?
Regarding opening the emergency door, I learned you couldn’t do it thanks to the Straight Dope.
Of course, Cecil Adams was talking about 35,000 feet up, not approaching the landing.
Congratulations David! You have successfully turned Friday Ephemera into just another site for old gits to be triggered without going to a mall food court.
Yeah, this is real.
Oh, how we all laughed back the day at the ‘Mike Pence Rule’! Those funny Americans and their strange ways!
I wonder if John laughed at the time.
I wonder if he’s laughing now…
I expect she can lead men around in much the same manner.
Appreciated – thanks
Transhausen by proxy.
Suboptimal scenario.
And to think those people paid extra to sit by the door and get extra leg room.
I’d hit everything except the beans.
Confession: am going to Ireland in about a week for a wedding and am looking forward to tucking into some black pudding again.
They were supposed to use that extra leg room to kick the loony in the balls.
It’s hard to know where to start:-
Soda bread, fried bread or at the bare minimum toast. That looks like bread and butter.
Fried onion. A fine thing in itself but not for breakfast.
Bacon. What cut is that FFS? Zero fat visible, it will probably taste and chew like salty rubber.
Black pudding as you correctly note is conspicuous by its absence. A hanging offence.
Baked beans. Those appear unusually dry and congealed as opposed to eagerly oozing into any available space on the plate eventually mixing with their natural allies – egg yolk and brown sauce.
Tomato. To-ma-to?
Potatoes. Where are they? They can be fried, hash-browned or even bubble and squeaked but they have to be there. Thankfully in Ireland this will not be an issue for you.
Enjoy.
A recurring urban phenomenon: The Bad Samaritan.
It’s hard to know where to start:-
The nearest dumpster?
Wasn’t anyone afraid of what could happen with a person like this in charge of a vital nuclear job?
Based on my personal experience, the liberals all deny that there are any risks, while the sane people know that any objections can get them fired and their careers ended.
Via AoS, for your consideration.
While everyone is worrying about AI, the seaweed has achieved consciousness and apparently a political consciousness at that.
Returning to the young men who lost their lives in Cardiff a few days ago the bbc and Uk media are now headlining quotes from an Aunt saying the bike was an early birthday present.
Sur-Ron e-bikes, apparently what they were riding on, start at just under £5k and can cost nearly twice that.
A pricey bike for people who live on “the tough streets of Cardiff”.